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  • 380k with a 30 year mortgage and something like $25k down. Amortization on 5.89% will show at the end of it, you’ll pay over 774k for it. Mortgage payment would be $2150. That’s after closing costs. Property insurance and property taxes about $700/mo. And I live in a high property tax area.

    Utilities aren’t included, but I haven’t seen many rentals that include utilities either. The house may be bigger and use more utilities though.

    The lowest rent in my area for 3 bedrooms is 2.2k/mo and that’s an outlier. Most are $2,700+/mo. If I were to pay the $2.7k for 30 years, that’s just shy of $1 million. And at $2200, it’s just shy of $800k in 30 years. That’s break even.

    This isn’t even addressing the instability of rental prices. My mortgage payment is locked in, at a fixed interest rate. If I were to rent, there is no guarantee that the rent i am paying today is the rent I’ll be paying in 5 years.

    Renters should be getting renters insurance too, so add that to the renters side.

    Yea, I will have home repairs I’ll need to pay for. But I’ll also have equity that I can leverage for them if I need to. I’d have to put in $200k in the course of 30 years to match what a renter in my area would be spending. And that’s just repairs, if I were to spend on renovations and/or additions than it would raise the property value.

    As for capital gains, that’s only when I sell, but if I have to pay taxes because I made money. Well, then I made money instead of… Only spent money?

    If the house doesn’t appreciate and only holds it’s value, it’s an asset that protects against inflation.




  • My city has a referendum to replace the middle school and add a wing to the elementary school. Oh and add fire suppression systems to both of them since they are so old they don’t have them.

    It’ll cost me $700/year for like 25 years.

    I’m voting yes. Let’s invest in our schools and education system. Let’s understand how incredibly useful the power of local taxes are.




  • That. Doesn’t. Work.

    Full stop.

    Let’s say for a moment that progressives and Democrats did that for whatever issue they personally felt strongly about.

    First, we have to acknowledge that the Republicans ARE NOT doing that. So they’re vote count doesn’t change and they win

    Second, people will disagree on the same issue. You can’t capture everyone on every issue. Refer to the first point, Republicans win.

    Third, there will be huge factions each with their own issue. A candidate cannot sway all these single issues groups. See the first point, Republicans win.

    What first past the post representative democracy means is to vote for the viable politician that MOST ALIGNS with your political position. Not the one that EXACTLY aligns. If you build the third parties at the local and representative and Senate level. Maybe you can get there, but for now, this is the political system we have to work in.


  • You said it’s a different subnet. Where is wireguard hosted?

    Is the file share on the same machine you are rdping to?

    Have you checked the local firewall? Iirc, windows will restrict with its firewall certain things like file shares to only it’s local subnet while exposing esp to all subnets.

    If it’s a windows machine, test turning off Windows firewall. If it works, then turn the firewall back on and fix the settings